Tag: Senate
Senate passes harmonized PIB bill with 3% allocation to oil communities despite protests
The Nigerian Senate has passed the harmonized Petroleum Industry Bill PIB produced by a conference committee of both chambers of the National Assembly [...]
Senate rejects electronic transmission of election results
The senate on Thursday rejected section 52(3) of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill which provides for electronic transfer of election results.
T [...]
Senate approves 20-year jail term for ballot box snatchers
The senate on Tuesday passed a bill to establish the Electoral Offences Commission, approving 20 years’ jail term or a fine of N40m for ballot boxes’ [...]
Senate bows to pressure, rejects Lauretta Onochie as INEC commissioner
The Senate, on Tuesday, declared President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Ms Lauretta Onochie ineligible for the position of N [...]
Senate moves to clear Onochie as INEC National Commissioner
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday, asked the Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission to screen f [...]
Senate to consider bill on database for cows
The Senate is considering a bill that will create a database for cows
The bill for an Act to ‘establish national livestock and management (prot [...]
Senate to probe N100m allocated by works ministry for road rehabilitated by RCCG
The Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has set aside N100m in the 2021 budget for the rehabilitation of the Ife-Ifewara Road which had been fixed b [...]
Photo News: Senate Joint House Committee on Petroleum Industry visit Dangote Refinery, Lagos
L-R, Group Executive Director, Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, Senator Albert [...]
EFCC acting chairman, Bawa, promoted to Level 14 ahead of senate screening
Ahead of his senate screening, the new acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been promoted to [...]
Full list of approved postings of 95 ambassadors-designate
Ninety-five career ambassadors and non-career ambassadors-designate are to be posted to various Nigerian missions abroad, the Federal Government [...]